30 Prostitution Arrests Made In Wilkes-barre Police

June 13, 1988|The Morning Call

A weekend prostitution sting operation of the Wilkes-Barre police vice and narcotics squad led to thearrest of 30 men, including Wilkes-Barre's Public Works Director Robert McGinley, police said yesterday.

All of the men were charged with offering money to an undercover female police officer in exchange for sex, according to police. Officials said some of the men were additionally charged with driving under the influence and narcotics violations.

Police said the raids were begun Friday night and continued Saturday night and into early yesterday.

They said that with the exception of about four people, those arrested were residents of Wilkes-Barre or Luzerne County and some neighboring communities in adjoining Lackawanna County. The exceptions were one person from Mahanoy City, two sales representatives from the Camden, N.J., area and the Rev. Donald C. Stricker of Palmerton, associate pastor at Trinity Lutheran Church, Lehighton.